饭 (飯)
fàn
Pinyin

Definition

饭 (飯)
 - 
fàn
  1. cooked rice
  2. CL:碗[wǎn]
  3. meal
  4. CL:頓|顿[dùn]
  5. (loanword) fan
  6. devotee

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

吃饭
chī fàn
  1. 1 to have a meal
  2. 2 to eat
  3. 3 to make a living
年夜饭
nián yè fàn
  1. 1 New Year's Eve family dinner
晚饭
wǎn fàn
  1. 1 evening meal
  2. 2 dinner
  3. 3 supper
  4. 4 classifier: 份 fèn
  5. 5 classifier: 顿 dùn
  6. 6 classifier: 次 cì
  7. 7 classifier: 餐 cān
饭
fàn
  1. 1 cooked rice
  2. 2 classifier: 碗 wǎn
  3. 3 meal
  4. 4 classifier: 顿 dùn
  5. 5 (loanword) fan
  6. 6 devotee
中饭
zhōng fàn
  1. 1 lunch

Idioms (16)

三茶六饭
sān chá liù fàn
  1. 1 lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes
  2. 2 to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
人是铁饭是钢
rén shì tiě fàn shì gāng
  1. 1 one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)
  2. 2 an empty sack cannot stand upright
吃大锅饭
chī dà guō fàn
  1. 1 lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
吃饭皇帝大
chī fàn huáng dì dà
  1. 1 eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
施粥舍饭
shī zhōu shě fàn
  1. 1 to provide alms and rice (idiom)

Sample Sentences

咱们吃饭不谈公事，只谈交情。这以后再说。
zánmen chīfàn bù tán gōngshì ，zhǐ tán jiāoqing 。zhè yǐhòu zàishuō 。
Let’s not talk about the business, but build the relationship during the meal. I'll see these later.
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妈妈给儿子做饭。
māma gěi érzi zuòfàn 。
The mother cooks for the son.
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你都吃了三碗饭了，你还吃呀？
nǐ dōu chī le sān wǎn fàn le ，nǐ hái chī ya ？
You’ve eaten three bowls of rice already, are you still eating?
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要不这样，择日不如撞日，我们今晚吃顿饭吧，我现在就去接您。
yàobù zhèyàng ，zérìbùrúzhuàngrì ，wǒmen jīnwǎn chī dùn fàn ba ，wǒ xiànzài jiù qù jiē nín 。
What about this? There's no better day than today, let's have dinner this evening. I'll go pick you up right now.
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饭店
fàn diàn
hotel
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有空吃个饭吧。
yǒukòng chī ge fàn ba 。
If you are free, let's have a meal.
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如果我想煮饭，超市就会把新鲜的食材送到我家，他们送的东西包括蔬菜、肉类、海鲜，只要你能想到的应有尽有。
rúguǒ wǒ xiǎng zhǔfàn ，chāoshì jiù huì bǎ xīnxiān de shícái sòng dào wǒ jiā ，tāmen sòng de dōngxi bāokuò shūcài 、ròulèi 、hǎixiān ，zhǐyào nǐ néng xiǎngdào de yīngyǒujìnyǒu 。
If I want to cook, the delivery people will deliver fresh groceries to my house. What they deliver includes vegetables, meat, seafood and anything you can think of.
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铁饭碗也会生锈啊，你待的私人企业才好，说不定快升职了呢！
tiěfànwǎn yě huì shēngxiù a ，nǐ dāi de sīrén qǐyè cái hǎo ，shuōbudìng kuài shēngzhí le ne ！
Stable jobs still wear out! Staying at a private business like you is better. Perhaps you are about to get a promotion!
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也是，还是你聪明，在公家单位找了个铁饭碗的工作。
yě shì ，háishi nǐ cōngming ，zài gōngjiā dānwèi zhǎo le ge tiěfànwǎn de gōngzuò 。
That's true. You are the smarter one for finding a stable job at a public sector.
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我们在包房里唱歌、吃饭。
wǒmen zài bāofáng lǐ chànggē 、chīfàn 。
We sing and eat in the rented room.
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